DICE Announces Another New Bad Company 2 Map Pack

On the eve of Black Ops' release, EA and DICE spill the beans on VIP Map Pack 7.

A seventh VIP map pack is coming for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Electronic Arts and DICE have decided to announce it today. Not unlike Sony opting to make a post on the PlayStation Blog last week about the EyeToy on the eve of Kinect's launch, it's surely not a coincidence that DICE is announcing the next batch of free downloadable content the day before Call of Duty: Black Ops hits store shelves.

Included in VIP Map Pack 7 are four brand new maps to Bad Company 2, including two that fans of the original Bad Company will recognize: Oasis and Harvest Day. Both of these maps will support Rush, Conquest, Squad Rush, and Squad Deathmatch modes. The other two new maps, Cold War and Heavy Metal, were inspired by Bad Company 2's single-player campaign. Cold War will support Rush, Squad Rush, and Squad Deathmatch, while Heavy Metal will suport Conquest, Squad Rush, and Squad Deathmatch.

DICE level designer Cristian Pavel briefly discussed the work he did on bringing Oasis over from the first Bad Company to BC2 in a post on the official Battlefield blog. According to him, the map hasn't been changed drastically, with one exception being that gold crates had to be moved from the rooftops to the ground floor because of the potential for buildings to collapse. DICE has also done some work to make the city area in Oasis not feel quite so flat.

No release date has been announced at this point except to say that details on another of the new maps, Heavy Metal, will be forthcoming on the blog on Wednesday, teasing that it's "one of the largest multiplayer maps ever for Battlefield: Bad Company 2." The map pack will be free to all PC owners and to all VIP members on consoles.

Comments (11)

When coming out?

Yay!!

I was sure they were finished with the whole VIP thing since they announced Vietnam. Glad to see a couple of new maps and a couple of really good maps from the first game, which I always said was vastly underrated and overlooked by shooter fans.

I've seen some comments talking about the repourposed maps being sold as new. I agree that I was a little disappointed by this myself, though at least I didn't pay for them. Nothing like paying for a new map pack and getting jazzed up old maps...

Map Pack #7

From all the press coverage and everythingthing when this game came out about the free map packs, it finally takes #7 and the launch of the new call of duty for them actually come out with semi-new maps for bf:bc2. I stoppped playing this awhile ago, I got tried of all the maps and the "new map packs" which were bs. I would actually shit myself if they make some old bf2 maps redone, mostly strike at karkand(since bf:bc2 has issues with air vechicles). But thank you for actually finally releaseing a real map pack, cant wait till #14 if it ever comes out.

Well, I'll be...

...dipped in shit, this actually surprised me. I was playing BF:BC the other night and thought: "too bad they didn't do Oasis for BF:BC2". I liked the "flat" nature of Oasis so I hope they don't over do it on the refurbishment. Harvest is a great combo of tank and infantry warfare. Good choices. The new maps? Well I'll have to see them before I can say much of anything except: Hooray!

Suh-Weet!

Finally some actual NEW maps for the game and not the same ones with new gameplay modes. I'll have to pop this back in and reacquaint myself with the game before the release of this and the Vietnam add-on. Hope it is soon (for both) since I'll be too broke to even think about Black Ops for a while.

hooray for free

Glad These are actually new

Was kinda getting tired of introducing maps excluded from certain modes to said modes and calling them new maps. I'm glad they continue to support this game like they do it's really great. I hope the entire fan base doesn't disappear with Black Ops' release. I'd like the two to peacefully co-exist